"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing."
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Source: Pages from the Goncourt Journal. Book by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, 2007.
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